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Dev Interrupted
Inventing the Ralph Wiggum Loop | Creator Geoffrey Huntley
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Geoffrey Huntley argues that while software development as a profession is effectively dead, software engineering is more alive—and critical—than ever before. In this episode, the creator of the viral "Ralph" agent joins us to explain how simple bash loops and deterministic context allocation are fundamentally changing the unit economics of code. We dive deep into the mechanics of managing "context rot," avoiding "compaction," and why building your own "Gas Town" of autonomous agents is the only way to survive the coming rift.
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- The "Cursed" Programming Language: github.com/ghuntley/cursed
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